Match-box holder



Jan. 6, 1931. s. w. WEGNER 1,788,002

MATCH BQXI'XOLDER Filed May 1.0, 4928 w 6 9 {:1 P-.. F ...4 ,1 2 PM 2 i :2 2 4 m L;

Patented Jan. 6, 1931 UNITED, sTATEs GUSTAV w. wnennn, oF'onr'cAGdinLrnors-i Maren-Box} time Application filed May 1o,'i92

This-invention relates to a base upon which to place a match box of the sliding tray type, and particularly a holder having a core-piece or pusher which fits within the jacket for the '1' 5 box and displaces the tray therefrom when the box is placed in position upon the holder.

The object of the invention is to provide a i very cheap and simple device for the purposes stated, and one which will securely grip the jacket for the box and prevent its being lifted from the holder in case the box instea of the holder is grasped for the purpose of lifting the holder, and incidentallyrender it sufliciently difiicult to separate the box from the holder to discourage appropriating the whole box of matches. l

It'has heretofore been proposed to spin or Otherwise form from thin metal, a domeshaped support for a match box, and to subdivide the dome into two side walls between whichthe jacket of the box may be placed, and a displacer'in position to extrude the tray when the box is placed in position; But the intermediate portion of the dome in the proposal heretofore made for producing a match box holder of this kind was severed and refashioned in a way to produce atpair of tongues as the tray displacing means, and cause these tongues to largely lose their cooperation with the outer walls and therefore have insuflicient gripping faces upon the box. As compared with this, the present invent-ion forms a dome of suitable dimensions with kerfs or cuts in vertical planes through the dome a distance equal to the proportion of the length of the match box acket that is to be received in the dome, and spaced apart a distance that will leave on the outside of the box two edged gripping jaws, and on the inside of the box as an undisturbed segment of the original dome, a displacing core, the edges of which, resulting from the cutting of the thin metal, will remain throughout in alignment with the edges of the adj acent porv 4: tions of the metal from which they were severed, so that the device constitutes an inner sharp edged jaw, which incidentally serves as the tray-dis lacing elementand two coacting outer s ar edged jaws; and these 550 jaws, by reason 0 the selected gauge of the e e -i t Int e' cco panyingnm i a ori slo ts will firmly into; the j walls of the match box jacket and render it jsoidif- 'jficult to j'iiemove the match box from: the

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1 represents the dome, 2 the slots or kerfs formed, therein to produce an inner combined displacer and gripping jaw 3, and two outer coacting gripping jaws 4, the spacing of the kerf corresponding substantially to the minor transverse dimension of a convention: al sliding tray match box, and the metal 0 which constitutes the jaws 3 and 4 being left in itsoriginal position so that the edges of said portions will standin occluding or cooperative gripping relation and will so firmly bite upon and bind the jacket of the3 i match box that the box can with difficulty be removed. While the jaws t by reason of their convex sections, will have substantial rigidity even when made of very thin metal, they nevertheless have slight resiliency iii-$ admitting the walls of the box; and the middle jaw and displacer 3 will retain suflicient convexity to resist its displacement from the intended relation to the jaws 4.

;5 represents a tray which is preferably formed from the same piece of metal as thedome l, and 6 is an ornamental band preferably of an integral piece of metal confined between the shoulders 8 and 9 of the tray, and located in such position by first forming the shoulder 8 and then after the band 6 is put in position, spinning or otherwise forming the shoulder 9 above the band. As suggested at one side, band 6 may be made the means of applying a finger hold 10, if desired. j

The match box holder herein described may be madeof any material suitable for the purpose, and by various processes, suclt L ing'the whole'box ofmatches will be largely" 55 r as spinning, drawing, stamping, casting, etc.

I claim: v r 1. A holder for match boxes of the sliding tray type, comprising a'dome having a 5 diameter approximately equal to the major transverse dimension of the jacket of the 7 box .t.said dome b ing. lotted in tw ,p ane e egpqndi gz ypes i ll toth iwe ls'iwhi define said minor dimension and thereby pro- 1O viding an intermediate jaw and twoe'ooper ating outer jaws, thezintenmediate jmqbes ing in position to extrude the tray of the match box, and the edges of the jaws nemainr 1 ing in the position which they held inthe- 15 original metal of the-dome whereby *theystand opposi e each other andin over oading :Q l g ipping ml tiqni o the-walls f the rhei V sli ath boxhslldehcompris raeyilinjd'ricalid mehaviilgan external fimmeteisub.

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